Chitosan is a nontoxic natural polysaccharide with good biocompatibility.It can form polymer|metal complexes with many metal cations for its extra electron pair of nitrogen.The complexes exhibit high sorptive capacity and good selectivity for urea.The sorption capacity was influenced by the metal content in the complex,time of sorption,concentration of urea etc.The sorption capacities were 83.6,79.1,72.9,69.4 and 53.4 mg/g for urea by the chitosan metal complexes of Cu(Ⅱ),Cd(Ⅱ),Co(Ⅱ),Zn(Ⅱ) and Fe(Ⅲ),respectively at pH 6.0 and the concentration of urea being 1 300 mg/L.
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